| Date: | 10/31/2001 |
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| Organization: | Department of Industrial Accidents |
| Docket Number: | DIA Board Nos. 013131-98, 056539-98 |
| Location: | Boston |
- Employee: JoAnn Azulay
- Employer: Saints Memorial Medical Ctr and Emerson Hospital
- Insurer: Saint Memorial Health Systems (self insurer) and Mass Healthcare S.I.G.
WILSON, J. The employee and the second insurer, Mass Healthcare S.I.G. (Mass Healthcare), appeal from a decision of an administrative judge in a successive insurer case. Both parties assert that the judge erred by finding that an industrial injury – an outbreak of dermatitis caused by frequent hand washing – occurred while the employee worked as a nurse for the employer that was covered by the second insurer. The employee also challenges the judge’s assignment of an earning capacity. We summarily affirm the decision with respect to the judge’s award of partial incapacity benefits based on the assigned earning capacity. We affirm the decision as to the successive insurer issue for the reasons that follow.